urbn studios

While working on a very exciting project which is still a bit under wraps but revolves around the Grand Rapids arts scene, we were approached to partner in a very significant way with the ArtPeers organization. We’re pretty excited by the possibilities of this arrangement and can’t wait to be able to share it more [...]

Four months ago I made a decision.  My current phone and data service with Sprint was horrible at the times I needed it most and I just had this suspicion that with the tools available for free out there, I just might be able to live happily without it.  I have no other phone service [...]

If you’ve never heard of ArtPrize, you should probably take a second to go check it out… it’s kind of a big deal here in Grand Rapids. And since it’s such a big deal and a little hard to keep track of, we decided to create a really easy to use platform that could be used by a bunch of people to share there experiences and recommendations about ArtPrize. Of course, it had to be attractive as well.

We have taken the Branch Church from it’s first humble web presence back in 2005 through 3 redesigns to it’s current wordpress-y goodness. We started with a WordPress site way back when but 5 years ago WP couldn’t perform like the ninja we know it to be today

For my personal site, I wanted an easy way to show off to projects that I’m most proud of. I wanted to make it easy to blog on but didn’t want the blog to be the main attraction. And, I wanted it to connect to all the myriad social networks that I maintain a presence on